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many victims in their agony prayed to have their clothes removed; 
but it was found to be impossible to do so without flaying them 
alive. Another body, that of a female, lies apparently with a 
oe at her nose, reminding me of that terrible 28th of 
, when even in the streets of Naples it was impossible to walk 
without sheltering eyes, nose, and mouth; and when, after gulp- 
ho The agency b 
is ea illustrated by the heaiaa | in the museum of Pompeii. 
Ww. m, 
3. Sea-Serpents —Regarding “sea-serpents,” the following note 
may fe interesting :—The South African Museum, Cape Town, 
recently received a specimen of the Ribbon fish ( Gymnoterus) 
fifteen feet long without the tail. It appears that this fish is known 
to distant inland fishermen as being forty feet long, an and from its 
slender shape and snake-like movement is probably the “sea-ser- 
pent” of late years so minutely described by Ba pence From its 
M is 
second greatest mae oa pisciculture, the first being the conveyance 
of fag to Australia.——Vature > Aug. 
itis Biwctatioar Tee ms eeting of the British Associa 
ton ys nf 3 will be held at Bradford, under the presidency ‘ of 
. JO : 
Natu 
that for August 15, to be had of Macmillan & Co., New 
OBITUARY. 
Sir us ep Smrru, “ author or - yr pent a of the Zoology 
upsettin go “3 a boat, while in an excursion on the coas 
mandy. was born in August, 1 
